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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>
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Subject: Re: Using "popper" in FreeBSD
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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:

> popper wants /var/mail to be publicly writable.  This is a very bad thing.
> Before I start rewriting that portion of code, has anyone else gotten it
> working with FreeBSD?

Why is this a bad thing?  What happens if you set the sticky bit?
 
> Sean.
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."